ALGOR ANNOUNCES DONATION TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH

The funds for Algor’s donation to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Research Equipment Initiative were raised at a Monte Carlo benefit party. In exchange for their donations, benefit attendees received play money that could be used to play a variety of casino games. The Research Equipment Initiative to which Algor contributed helps to provide state-of-the-art technology to pediatric researchers. (Algor photos)

February 11, 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Algor, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers, today announced a donation to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s top ten children’s hospitals and pediatric research facilities. Algor has been donating to Children’s Hospital for the past seven years. This year the donation will support the Research Equipment Initiative, which purchases state-of-the-art scientific equipment for the hospital’s Rangos Research Center, helping to sustain a century-long tradition of leadership in pediatric medical research. Algor raised the funds for this donation by holding a Monte Carlo benefit party for Algor employees.

"Algor is proud to help provide technology to pediatric researchers," said Michael L. Bussler, president of Algor, Inc. "Through this donation, Algor and its employees are demonstrating their support for developing technological resources within the Pittsburgh community and their concern for children affected by pediatric illnesses."

The funds for Algor’s donation to Children’s Hospital were raised on December 6, 1999 at a Monte Carlo benefit party for all Algor employees. In exchange for their donations, party attendees received play money that could be used to play a variety of casino games. Prizes were donated by Pittsburgh area organizations including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins and 38 others. Most prizes were awarded to those that accumulated the most play money, while others were auctioned off in a silent auction. Through these festivities, Algor was able to make one of the highest contributions in its seven-year history of fundraising for Children’s Hospital.

"Algor’s gift will help to buy state-of-the-art research equipment, which is an important building block to support researchers in their effort to find cures for juvenile diabetes, muscular distrophy and childhood cancers, to name a few," said Aileen Sanders, Coordinator of Foundation and Corporate Relations at Children’s Hospital, "The ultimate beneficiaries of Algor’s gift will be the children whose lives will be saved through the discoveries made possible with the most advanced research equipment available. We are truly grateful for Algor's continued support of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. We thank Algor for this very generous gift."

According to one of the researchers benefiting from the Research Equipment Initiative, the Associate Professor of Neurology Vinodh Naraynan, M.D., "the DNA sequencing and analysis instrument [provided by the Research Equipment Initiative] allows all the researchers at Children's Hospital to get data for their studies. This equipment will allow researchers to concentrate on their research and spend less time on the technical problems that occurred with older DNA analysis equipment."

Algor has been a leader in the engineering software industry since introducing FEA for PCs in 1984 and interfacing with CAD systems in 1985. The company provides innovative, affordable and easy-to-use software products that have enabled 20,000 engineers in 60 countries to create safe, efficient, cost-effective designs. Algor also offers superior educational support and customer service that includes the use of state-of-the-art Internet audio/video technology for live "Web Courses" and free public "Webcasts," which provide step-by-step Algor software instruction.

Algor’s product line features FEA-based Accupak/VE Mechanical Event Simulation software. Accupak/VE reduces the need for physical prototyping and eliminates the need to input dynamic loads by determining the motion, flexing and resulting stresses of a mechanism at each instant of an event. Algor’s proprietary kinematic element technology makes performing Mechanical Event Simulations using CAD solid parts and assemblies practical for realistic, accurate results. Engineers can use Algor’s InCAD^Plus and InCAD DesignPak products to seamlessly capture exact CAD geometry from popular CAD systems within Algor. The company also offers linear stress, vibration, heat transfer, electrostatic, fluid flow, composite materials and piping systems analysis tools. Algor’s software interchanges data with products from ANSYS, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANSS), Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSK), CADKEY Corporation, MSC.Software Corporation (NYSE:MNS), Parametric Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:PMTC), Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (Nasdaq:SDRC), Unigraphics Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:UGS), SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq:DASTY) company, and others.